True to Form: Types & Shadows, Abiding in the Light & the Blinding Darkness | 1 John 2:9-11

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It's good to see everyone today, and it's good to be back

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Behind the pulpit so Today, I'm preaching a new type of sermon.

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I call it the reactionary sermon That's because I'm reacting or responding to certain issues which have come up and need to be addressed

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But don't panic It's actually not new at all so there's actually plenty of biblical precedent because this is how

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Paul and the New Testament authors often preached and This is also how they wrote pretty much all of their letters

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They addressed various issues and controversies that came up in the churches and with individuals but upon further reflection

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I Realized that every book of the New Testament deals with specific issues that occur and then after reflecting some more

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I Realized that pretty much every book of the Old Testament Also deals with specific issues that came up at those times

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So every book of the Bible deals with all the various issues of life and death

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Especially the issue of sin and the need for redemption of The law which condemns and the gospel which saves and as you can see from the sermon title

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Which reads true to form types and shadows abiding in the light and the blinding darkness.

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I Have some topics and issues to react and respond to and I trust that the

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Lord will bless you in the process Now you might be thinking.

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Okay, so What on earth do these topics have in common? But do not fear there is a method to my madness as always

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There is actually a common theme in all of them The overarching theme is revealed in the first phrase of the title staying true to form staying true to form

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True to form means to behave or proceed in an expected manner

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To behave or proceed in an expected manner so with respect to types and shadows and Rightly interpreting scripture.

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We must carefully determine those characteristics the true form that is of biblical types and antitypes

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So what they are and what they are not and furthermore a biblical type is

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Itself a form or a pattern of what it points to Which is the antitype?

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this theme of staying true to form is also one of the Apostle John's major emphases throughout his letter as We've seen already from the sermons.

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I've preached on in the past What is the form of a true church

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What are the marks of a true church? What are the marks of a true fellowship with God and his people?

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What is the what is the form? the manner the pedi Patel the lifestyle of a true

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Christian By contrast what is the form the manner and lifestyle of a false

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Christian? of religious hypocrites who say one thing and do another and In light of today's passage from 1st

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John, are you staying true to form? Are you abiding in the light?

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Or are you blinded by darkness? So be sure to keep these things in mind throughout the sermon

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Let's start out with some church history and historical theology as Pastor David alluded to already

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So my first reaction pertains to the question we read today from the Orthodox Catechism commonly called the

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Apostles Creed the Apostles didn't write it by the way, but I Wanted to introduce it make some necessary distinctions and explain

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Some phrases that might cause confusion if we're not familiar with the history behind it Also known as the old

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Roman symbol The Apostles Creed was first written in the 2nd century, which is the 100s

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Though it underwent some changes into its present form during the 5th century the 400s this will be relevant a little bit later and Speaking of staying true to form

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We need to understand what the Holy Catholic Church means in the Creed and What it really points to and Which the

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Apostle John also deals with in his letter especially regarding fellowship, so We we read

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From the Creed one of the lines says I believe in the Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church the communion of saints and so on the word

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The word Catholic in Holy Catholic Church actually means universal

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Church or All of the chosen people of God as the Orthodox Catechism also explains in question 55

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What do you believe concerning the Holy Catholic Church? I? Believe that the

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Son of God through his spirit and word out of the entire human race from the beginning of the world to its end gathers protects and preserves for himself a community chosen for eternal life and United in true faith and of this community.

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I am and always will be a living member in other words

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Holy Catholic Church does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church as some claim in Fact the earlier version of this

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Creed said Holy Church it didn't use the word Catholic on the contrary the

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Roman Catholic Church state and I say this because it is both a church and a sovereign state in which the

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Pope exercises supreme Legislative executive and judicial power in other words all of it

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Over the Vatican City State Administered by the Sea of Rome or the papal

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Roman court which is distinct from the magisterium or the more religious authority of Rome and the papacy is the head of both the

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Roman Church and state as Historic and historically dominated virtually the all of the medieval world at one point

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For pretty much a millennium It's funny because Wikipedia calls this quote a rare case of non hereditary monarchy a theocratic absolute elective monarchy

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And that's putting it rather mildly Beloved make no mistake the papal

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Roman Church state is an absolute tyrannical totalitarian

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Institution which not only set the example for totalitarian regimes of the 20th century but also supported and collaborated with them

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Just about all of them Again, this is not the

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Holy Catholic Church that the Creed the Creed refers to Let's not get that confused

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The Roman Church state did not even exist when the Creed was written and it was barely taken form in the 400s

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Often associated with the beginning of the Middle Ages Romanism began to form at around the end of the 4th century or the late 300s and Continued to worsen throughout the medieval age and still continues to corrupt itself into the modern era

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It has only gotten worse not better it is the very opposite of what the

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Bible describes in general as the true church and First John in particular as a true fellowship of true believers

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Many Christians are not even aware of all of this Many Catholics are not aware of all this

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But As Paul says don't be ignorant

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Okay, I would not have you to be ignorant brethren and sistren and you don't need to take my word for it

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I would also strongly encourage you to Study this more in particular from John Robbins book on ecclesiastical megalomania

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The economic and political thought of the Roman Catholic Church Now that being said

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There is another Controversial phrase in the Creed He descended into hell there are different views of what this means most reformed theologians say that Christ suffered the pains of hell primarily on the cross and Therefore did not descend

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Literally to help which really means she'll shale in Hebrew or Hades in Greek Which is the temporary realm of the dead and this is what the

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Orthodox Catechism later answers in question 44 Why does the Creed add he descended to hell?

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To assure me in times of personal crisis and temptation that Christ my Lord by suffering unspeakable anguish pain and terror of soul

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Especially on the cross but also earlier as opposed to later after he died has delivered me from the anguish and torment of hell

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But once I started to investigate this phrase,

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I quickly quickly realized that I had opened a huge can of worms There is a massive amount of debate and discussion of this doctrine and I cannot give it the attention it deserves in today's sermon

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So a few remarks will have to suffice for now mainly for your awareness

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The doctrine of Christ ascended to hell according to others means that after he died

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Christ's spirit descended into hell or to the place of torment in Sheol and preached to or rebuked the spirits in prison based on passages like the account of the rich man and Lazarus Ephesians 4 8 through 10 and 1st

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Peter 3 18 through 20 and In 1st

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Peter it says for Christ also suffered once for sins The righteous for the unrighteous that he might bring us to God Being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison

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Because they formally did not obey When God's patience waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared in which a few

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That is eight persons were brought safely through water So and I do think that this view does have biblical merit as we can see and there is another minority view in the reformed world and as sometimes believed together with the

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Previous view I just described Held by such men as Sam Renahan and James White known by the

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Latin phrase limbus patrum limbus patrum and If you're thinking limbo, you're right and it's like well, isn't that kind of weird?

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Isn't that a Catholic thing? actually, not necessarily the limbus patrum means limbo of the fathers and It teaches that after Old Testament Saints died they went to Abraham's bosom which is an it's a

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Idiom for the place of paradise and shield based on the account of the rich man and Lazarus and so on so That's because this understanding there is shield is

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Has to look to places Separated by a great gulf between them.

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One is the place of torment. The other is a place of paradise so But this this view also means that Old Testament Saints did not actually ascend to heaven until after Christ died and Descended into shield to take them up okay, so and I've thought about this for a while now and I just kind of it keeps nagging me because I just there's some problems that I can't really reconcile biblically

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For one this suggests that salvation in the Old Testament is different from salvation in the

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New Testament Namely because Even though Old Testament Saints were justified by the blood of the promised

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Messiah They still didn't get to inherit eternal life until Christ came

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To finish the to actually accomplish that task So it's a little strange to me at least that they would the the benefits of Christ's redemption would be applied except for that and then another major Gap or hiccup and at least according to what

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I'm seeing is What about the Saints that did not die? Because they were raptured by God like Enoch or Elijah I mean does that mean that only

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Enoch and Elijah made it to heaven while everybody else had to wait in you know She'll in paradise

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There was only you know them two up there. It's like it doesn't really it's not it doesn't really make sense to me

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And also, what about the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17 where both Elijah and Moses?

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appear and Moses by the way was not raptured.

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He died just like everybody else and They both appeared to Jesus and his inner circle of Apostles In the gospel account, so this doesn't really add up at least not to me.

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It doesn't really make sense That's not to say that it's heretical or anything like that,

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I just don't think it does a very good job of Reconciling the whole Council of God now there are

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No shortage of heretical views on this doctrine Such as from word -faith heretics like Joyce Meyer and Benny Hinn who teach that Jesus was literally doggy piled in hell by demons

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And continued to suffer after his death So that is just rank heresy, so we don't that is outright heresy and I must be flat -out rejected for the the heresy that it is

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Remember what Jesus said on the cross it is finished There was nothing else left to do in order to satisfy our redemption

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Once the cross was satisfied and paid for Because that's when the wrath of God was poured out on Christ and satisfied

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So hopefully by setting some theological fences or boundaries that clarifies things a bit and even though it does require making sense of several challenging passages and I for one also need to study this more carefully

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So it's just to get your your feet wet now

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My second reaction is to an issue that I caused which requires an important clarification pertaining to hermeneutics the study of rightly interpreting scripture and typology the study of biblical types and antitypes shadows and substances

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So I may have overstated something in my last sermon on 1st John chapter 2 verses 7 through 8 when

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I said that John is presenting multiple layers of meaning in the passage and It's not so much what

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I preach that I'm taking issue with it's the poor choice of words. I use to describe John's authorial intent this notion of multiple meanings in In a given passage of scripture can be very dangerous if left unchecked

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Which is precisely why? the Westminster Confession the Savoy Declaration and the which is a

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Congregationalist Confession based on the Westminster and the 1689

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London Baptist Confession, which is the one that we would hold to all affirm the same hermeneutical

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Principle or Maxim in chapter 1 section 9 which reads the infallible rule of interpretation of scripture is the scripture itself and Therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture

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Which is not manifold not many But one

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It's only one it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly

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So the confessions clearly state that any given scripture has only one meaning

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Not many Okay, so we need to think this through a little bit

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Because While the Bible is most certainly not a wax nose

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That we can twist to make it say whatever we want We nevertheless need to maintain biblical balance

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This was fascinating by the way, I found out that the term wax nose may have come from John Calvin when he was describing what how the

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Roman Catholics like to Make scripture say whatever they want to make it conform to their teaching

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You know based on another Method that they use called the quadriga.

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So they believe that the Bible has four different meanings and They make all kinds of heretical

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Doctrines out of that so There's something we need to wrestle with here because in some cases

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Scripture does have a sort of double meaning Or to put it another way the same scripture can point to or refer to different places events people or things with respect to prophecy

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With an immediate and future fulfillment and Typology a type and an anti type and And as I said earlier

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We must carefully determine these characteristics or the true form of biblical types and anti types

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Mishandling or abusing the types and prophecies can lead to serious errors and heresies

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And if you want a popular example look no further than men like Tim Keller Incidentally The way in which we identify and interpret types and prophecies

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Also leads to key differences in covenant theology so they have very a

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Very big downstream impact on your doctrine on your systematic theology and your covenant theology

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Now in order to cement this point Let's examine a concrete example by turning to Isaiah chapter 7.

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I was really excited to To prepare for this passage because I had never

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I had never really walked through this carefully to see what the scriptures are actually teaching and saying with respect to a very important prophecy

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Let's turn to Isaiah 7 so here in this chapter

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And I really think this is critical for us to understand and for us to react appropriately

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Whenever you hear some wacko say that scripture has a diversity of meanings So now next time hopefully you can catch me in the act

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In this passage the wicked King Ahaz Ahaz not

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Ahab Was fearful because the Arameans or Syrians and the

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Israelites From the northern kingdom of Israel plotted to attack Jerusalem in the southern kingdom of Judah the

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Prophet Isaiah, however Assures a has that they would fail and fall in Isaiah 7 verses 7 through 9

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So let's jump to those verses Where we read Thus says the

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Lord God it shall not stand and it shall not come to pass for the head of Syria is

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Damascus and the head of Damascus is resin which is King resin and within 65 years

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Ephraim the northern kingdom of Israel will be shattered from being a people and then in verses 10 through 12

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God lets a has Asked God for a sign to guarantee the failure of Syria's and Israel's threat but a has refuses

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You can already see where it has is going. He's just going the wrong way I mean, that's an opportunity of a lifetime like when does

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God Ever ask you, you know Pick any sign you want

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So that I can show you my my guarantee my my promise so God rebukes a has and Promises him a sign in verses 14 through 16.

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Let's read this carefully Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign behold the virgin

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Which can also mean young maiden Shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name

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Emmanuel Now this is more of a divine title rather than an actual name which in Matthew we find out it means

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God with us He shall eat curds and honey

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When he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good for before Before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good the land of Canaan Whose two kings you dread that is of Aram or Syria and Israel Will be deserted or laid to waste so this is fascinating because This prophecy had an immediate fulfillment at that time because era

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Aram or Syria and Israel were both destroyed some years later and Because the specific sign of the prophesied birth appears to refer to the birth of my heart shall a

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Shasta's No, sorry, my heart shall a hash bus That's a that's quite a name in a in Isaiah 8 3 through 4 and If you read

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Isaiah from that point on you will see God is God is has

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Oracle after oracle of judgment on every nation culminating on the entire world Every nation is being judged including

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Syria and Israel for their wickedness But if we turn to Isaiah chapter 8 and started verse 3

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We will see something very compelling verse 3 we read and I went to the prophetess and She conceived and bore a son

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Then the Lord said to me call his name my heart shall a hash bus for before the boy knows how to cry my father or my mother the wealth of Damascus which represents southern

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Syria and the spoil of Samaria Which represent the northern kingdom of Israel will be carried away by the king of Assyria So very fascinating very compelling.

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We can kind of see that the immediate fulfillment was Established but but the the story doesn't end there, of course

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The story by no means ended there this prophecy of the virgin birth also had a future fulfillment and ultimate fulfillment in Matthew 1 verses 18 through 23

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So let's go ahead and turn now to the New Testament gospel of Matthew in chapter 1 where we can read the ultimate fulfillment of this prophecy so now

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We fast forward hundreds of years later In the time of the

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Gospels the time of Christ. We will see in chapter 1 verses 18 through 23

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What is revealed? Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way

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When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found to be with child that is before they came together intimately

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She was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit and her husband Joseph being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame

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Resolved to divorce her quietly But as he considered these things behold an angel of the

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Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not fear to take

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Mary as her wife For that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit She will bear a son and you shall call his name

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Jesus for he will save his people from their sins All this took place to fulfill

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What the Lord had spoken by the Prophet Isaiah Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall call his name

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Emmanuel which means God with us This is amazing because while in the

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Hebrew the word for young maiden or virgin was Alma and That could mean either one

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In the Septuagint which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament. The word was parthenos

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Parthenos, which means virgin and so Here we we see very clearly

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How this is fulfilled prophetically fulfilled there's an immediate fulfillment in the time of Isaiah and the time of a has and a future fulfillment in the time of Christ with the virgin birth of Jesus Christ Now but it doesn't end there

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Furthermore The immediate fulfillment of the young maiden giving birth to a son is also a type

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That points to the virgin birth of the Son of God Which is the anti type or the ultimate fulfillment of the same prophecy and thus here we see a clear -cut example of one scripture that prophetically and typically points to or typologically points to two different events circumstances and people another thing to keep in mind in order to grasp the true and full sense of these kinds of passages, especially

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Like the Confession says we must use the analogy of Scripture to search and apply other relevant passages if You fail to do so you will completely miss the ultimate point of Isaiah 7 14

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If you don't have Matthew 18 Sorry, Matthew 1 Verse 18 accounted for you will not fully understand what

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Isaiah was prophesying That's why we need the whole counsel of God it's a it's a clear -cut example of this and I found it to be just fascinating how this all plays out and for further study

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I encourage you to listen to my interview of Steve Matthews on episode 103 of Semper Reformanda radio and To read his excellent book called imagining a vain thing where he talks a lot more about typology and these things so there are numerous other examples in Scripture where The the

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Bible uses types and anti types and shadows and substances and these kinds of things

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You know and just a quick another quick example is in 1st

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Corinthians 10 1 through 4 That's referring to the passage in the

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Exodus and it says that they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them and the rock was

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Christ The rock was Christ so Even though the rock

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Was a rock in Exodus that that Moses struck to to pour out water.

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So the Israelites could drink Here in 1st Corinthians God is saying that the rock

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Was a type was a type of Christ. The anti type was Christ himself. The rock was

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Christ so there was Referring to two different people two different things so Hopefully that'll whet your appetite a little bit and this also concludes my reactionary introduction

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So let's Now let's turn back to our to 1st

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John chapter 2 in 1st John chapter 2 so last time

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Last time I preached on 1st John chapter 2 verses 7 through 8 So we'll start there and verses 7 through 8 so in 1st

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John chapter 2 verse 7 we read

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Beloved I am writing to you. I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning

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The old commandment is the word that you have heard at the same time

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It is a new commandment that I am writing to you which is true in him and in you because the darkness is passing away and The true light is already shining

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John shows us Here that Christ himself the

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Logos is the embodiment of the gospel the

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Logos Which both are referred to as logos in John's letter the gospel and Christ and that the truth of the gospel is exemplified in those who truly believe and have been transformed and Regenerated by God's grace through the gospel the power of God unto salvation like Romans says

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Also Christ's active obedience is the perfect fulfillment of the law of love or the commandment which which

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Which first John later on alludes to as loving your neighbor

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Loving your neighbor and Christ was a perfect fulfillment of loving God in your neighbor. Now, let's continue

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Let's continue reading our text in verse 9 verses 9 through 11

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Where the scriptures say?

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Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness whoever loves his brother

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Abides in the light and in him there is no cause for stumbling but whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is going

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Because the darkness has blinded his eyes This is just an incredibly vivid and Very vivid picture that John is painting for us

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John is once again contrasting very clearly light and darkness This time with respect to the obedience of true believers and the disobedience of hypocritical unbelievers and If we zoom in on verse 11

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It vividly describes a darkness so dark that it blinds the eyes

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But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is going

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Because the darkness has blinded his eyes this is fascinating because John appears to be using darkness as a figure of speech called the deacon paid

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For strong emphasis and A deacon pay is a word or phrase that is repeated with it with a small number of intervening words

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And you can see he says darkness three or four times in just that verse alone And he even throws in a literary paradox or antithesis

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Which is used to provoke the audience Because we typically associate bright light as blinding rather than darkness

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Typically it's you know, you see a bright light and you're blinded like Saul like Paul was Saul was when?

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Christ appeared to him and he was blinded But at the same time When we see what he's getting at it makes perfect sense that the darkness will consume and blind you

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Because the darkness that John refers to is this dangerously self -destructive

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It's it's dangerously self -destructive because it continues it continues to darken and blind the sinner into judgment and Fattening him up for the slaughter

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According to Romans 1 and 2 and numerous other places in fact in Romans 2 5 we read that But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath

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When God's righteous judgment will be revealed That is what this darkness causes it will cause you to get worse and to compound your judgment before God and Another interesting note looks like Paul also likes to use the acapella because he said

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Storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath So the emphasis is just very very clear now

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What exactly is this blinding darkness? That is so destructive and self -destructive

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It literally is the darkness of lies

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Lies of false opinions of willful ignorance not just ignorance, but also willful ignorance and Self -deception

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Suppressing the truth because the religious hypocrite lacks self -awareness and therefore fails to recognize his sin and need for repentance and forgiveness

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You know John you know, it's just as John Calvin the the

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French reformer That we met a while back in my last sermon said very eloquently in his first chapter of his institutes of the

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Christian religion a masterpiece that you you all Would be would do well to read in full in the first chapter.

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He says true wisdom consists in two things two things knowledge of God and knowledge of self without knowledge of self

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There is no knowledge of God Our wisdom insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom

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Consists almost entirely of these two parts the knowledge of God and of ourselves

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But as these are connected by many ties It is not easy to determine which of the two proceeds and gives birth to the other

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I could not have said that any better myself.

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That was just Extremely well put if you do not have knowledge of self you are in darkness

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You do not have the light of God in the light of Christ in you That is exactly what

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Christ Constantly rebuked the Pharisees of of being blind and leading the blind and Making twofold sons of hell because they themselves were so arrogantly self -deceived about their self -righteousness which turned out to be nothing but filthy rags and This this theme of darkness and light is so prevalent throughout the entire

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Bible We have another very vivid passage where The darkness is also explained in Jude in the letter of Jude in verses 12 through 13 so in Jude's letter

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We see a very severe judgment described of a certain kind of people in in Jude in verse 12 through 13

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We see how Jude is describing these men these men

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He he lists out in verse 4 These certain men who have crept in unnoticed who long ago were marked out long ago for this condemnation

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Ungodly men who turn the grace of God into lewdness lasciviousness and Deny the only

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Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ these men are

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Spots in your love feasts while they feast with you without fear They are blind

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They're self -deceived They're in darkness Serving only themselves

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They are clouds without water carried about by the winds Late autumn trees without fruit twice dead pulled up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming up their own wickedness and shame

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Wandering stars from whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever that is just Shuddering that just that is just shuddering a darkness so dark that it's blinding and For those of for those who are walking in darkness in this life.

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You will be judged into the ultimate blackness of darkness in the lake of fire these are very very

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It's just Amazing teaching from God's Word and 1st

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John and all throughout these these topics that we discussed and so I Wanted to close with that and to just and to just remind us that the

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Christian life in many ways is about dealing with our issues dealing with issues and That's what amazed me so much it made me realize like well

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That's no wonder the Bible is all about dealing with issues all kinds of issues every book deals with certain issues of life and death of all kinds

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That is why the scriptures are also sufficient They are sufficient and they are the final rule of faith and practice for all matters of Faith and life and doctrine and truth all of it everything must be submitted to the ultimate

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Judge the supreme judge as the confession puts it of God's Word so I Was just amazed at how much

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I learned even from the passage in Isaiah, which we all read we all see we all

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You know, we all hear in Christmas sermons and I never really walked through it that carefully and realized that Yes, the

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Bible indeed does have passages that refer to Tiple typologically or typically refers to and prophetically refers to two different circumstances events people and things so I Hope I hope that that Blesses you and I want us to now close in prayer so that we can

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Take this home and chew on it some more our gracious Lord and Heavenly Father.

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We thank you for Your the amazing privilege of being adopted into the household of faith solely by your grace and through the perfect life and death of your son

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Jesus Christ Which was? amazingly prophetically and typologically portrayed all throughout the

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Old Testament and all throughout showing the New Testament fulfillment of the

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Messiah the one true Messiah the God man who would come and be our redemption our glorious Redeemer Once for all who satisfied the payment of your wrath on the cross as the ultimate

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Propitiation the ultimate satisfaction of your wrath on that tree and bearing the curse that we deserve

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Lord, we ask that you would reveal this to us, especially to those of us who don't know you as Savior We ask that you would bless bless us and help us to grow in the grace and knowledge of our

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Lord and Savior and to take To take heart and to take comfort joy and hope that you are the you are in control of absolutely everything

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Lord you declare the end from the beginning and seeing this seeing these passages today with with fresh eyes has

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Hopefully given us even more encouragement and assurance of the amazing sovereign

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God that you are who loves us and cares for us In such an amazing manner as Christ said

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The manner of love is this that a man should die and lay his life for his friends

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We thank you gracious Lord with all of these things and we ask this in Jesus Thank you for listening to the sermons of thorn crown covenant

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Baptist Church where the Bible alone and the Bible in its entirety Has applied to all of faith and life.

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We strive to be biblical reformed historic confessional loving discerning

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Christians who evangelize stand firm in and earnestly contend for the Christian faith

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If you're looking for a church in the El Paso, Texas area or for more information about our church sermons and ministries

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Such as Semper Ephraim on the radio and thorn crown network podcasts Please contact us at thorn crown ministries calm and may the mercy peace and love of our triune